Results 29,081-29,100 of 34,885 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report November 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (5 Dec 2013)
Seán Fleming: I do. What advice might the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council give to the Government in terms of renegotiating the cost of servicing the national debt in the next year or two, after we have returned to the markets? We cannot continue to reduce voted expenditure in line Departments without any debate at all on reducing the interest payment on the national debt. Does Professor McHale believe the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report November 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (5 Dec 2013)
Seán Fleming: I understand that. Professor McHale believes that next year the Government should hold to the target of €2 billion. Given that this year the Government was able to find €600 million to meet its target of €3.1 billion - which it says has been met - and many were once-off measures - surely next year, the Government will be able to produce once-off measures amounting to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report November 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (5 Dec 2013)
Seán Fleming: The Minister did not do so. In his budget speech he talked about the overall adjustment of €3.1 billion, made up of €2.5 billion taxation and expenditure measures plus €600 million on other items.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report November 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (5 Dec 2013)
Seán Fleming: In view of what has happened this year with regard to the €600 million, is it an issue that the council would address in advance of the budget next year when giving its endorsement? The council has been forewarned that €600 million, €800 million, €1 billion, can be produced from somewhere else other than consolidation measures to which Professor McHale referred.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report November 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (5 Dec 2013)
Seán Fleming: Professor McHale has read the budget document and he will know that it contained no breakdown of that €600 million. In retrospect it should have made clear where the €600 million was.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report November 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (5 Dec 2013)
Seán Fleming: In future if there are to be on-off other items this should be made clear in the documentation presented to the Oireachtas on budget day. It took parliamentary questions over the following ten days to even elucidate these matters. Would it assist the long-term well-being of our banks if the Central Bank were to publish its detailed assessment of the banks' assets quality? Is there room...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report November 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (5 Dec 2013)
Seán Fleming: Does Professor McHale think there will be a difference between the assessment carried out by our Central Bank and that of the ECB?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report November 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (5 Dec 2013)
Seán Fleming: The witnesses are very welcome here today and I thank them for their brief presentation. They are very clear that the Government should have continued with the previously planned adjustment of €3.1 billion rather than the reduced amount of €2.5 billion, but the Minister's statement consistently refers to the €3.1 billion adjustment made up of expenditure reductions,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee (5 Dec 2013)
Seán Fleming: I propose Deputy Dara Murphy.
- Order of Business (5 Dec 2013)
Seán Fleming: The Minister is aware that under planning legislation, the wind energy guidelines published in 2006 were to be reviewed by the relevant Minister. The Minister concerned has indicated this review will be completed this week. Will this deadline be met? How soon can we expect the review of the wind energy guidelines to be published?
- Electricity Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2013)
Seán Fleming: I welcome the opportunity of speaking on this debate. In the motion, we in Fianna Fáil propose that Dáil Éireann, "agrees that Ireland's electricity infrastructure and transmission capability be modernised, as well as expanded, to allow for a clean, sustainable and affordable supply to the public and to support all future economic and societal development." My party's motion...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2013) Seán Fleming: I apologise for being a little late. On the Peoplepoint and payroll shared services projects, I am aware there were significant initial costs involved in the setting up of the projects in the first year. I understand from what I have heard across the public service there are set-up costs for projects for the first two years and then they start to save money from year 3 onwards. From where...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2013) Seán Fleming: I understand that. Perhaps I was not clear in putting my question. Take any of the organisations whose function is transferred to Peoplepoint and, say, five people were involved in the payroll in that section-----
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2013) Seán Fleming: I am making the same point, irrespective of which service I give as an example. Let us say five people are dealing with human resources or payroll in an organisation and those functions are transferred to Peoplepoint or payroll shared services, those five people are no longer required to do that work in the organisation as it is now being done centrally. Those five people will be subsumed...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2013) Seán Fleming: This will lead to a saving if the employment control framework for the relevant organisation is reduced by the number of staff now doing the work. Does that happen? Is the employment control framework reduced by the number of staff that used to be in the section? If so, there are fewer staff members.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2013) Seán Fleming: Is there a specific reduction?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2013) Seán Fleming: The Minister does not have information about the 13 organisations now up and running. Perhaps the Minister can send information to the committee secretariat. Can the Minister give us an example of how the employment control framework has been reduced?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2013) Seán Fleming: We are dealing with HR issues and the HR function will be administering sick pay arrangements from 1 January. Will the counting of the clock be made retrospective? The most fundamental thing we learned is that legislation cannot be made retrospective. It cannot be backdated and it does not happen with tax. We see the counting of the clock in respect of sick days is going back a number of...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2013) Seán Fleming: I am only teasing out the issue with the Minister.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2013) Seán Fleming: This is the last point but it is connected to the topic.